Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Railroad passenger services, public or private?

The Transport Politic blog has a stupendous entry on the subject: HSR: Public or Private?

I've written about the European experience a bit myself, "US Federal Rail Policy: Learning from Worse Practices" and have linked to these resources in other entries:

-- privatization of British Rail (see "The Privatization of Public Utilities Can Be a Disaster" from the International Herald-Tribune)
-- contracting of railroad services for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (see the Boston Globe editorial, "Unreliable Rails.)

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